This document is a summary of the activities of the Centre for Canadian Studies for the year 2023. The Centre is administrated by a board of five members who meet three times a year.
The Centre for Canadian Studies is pleased to announce the publication of Christophe Premat's article "Les usages du modèle canadien dans la presse francophone" in volume 60 of the “International Journal of Canadian Studies”.
The Centre for Canadian Studies is pleased to see a research article published by Christophe Premat in volume 35 of the “British Journal of Canadian Studies”
Alice Duhan, currently postdoctoral research fellow at Romklass, has been awarded research funding from the Swedish Research Council in the annual call for humanities and social sciences. Her three-year project, "Translingual Writing post-1945 and the Multilingual Spaces of French Fiction", examines literary texts written by second language authors in French and asks how this literature can contribute to a re-reading of recent French literary history from the vantage point of multilingualism. Authors who write and publish literary texts in their second, third or fourth chronologically acquired language have always existed. It is indeed perhaps surprising that it is only in the last twenty years that a specialized research field has emerged that studies this “translingual” literature as a specific sub-category within literary studies. This project focuses on translingual fiction in French from 1945 onwards, a period when translingual writers not only came to play a particularly prominent role within French-language literature, but also increasingly came to be viewed – and often to perceive themselves – as belonging to a specific “translingual” literary tradition. The study aims to establish for the first time an overview and periodization of translingual writing in French from the mid-twentieth century to today, and will also contribute to our understanding of how translingual writing has been theorised and received in a specifically French-language context.
Program with Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, both in The Gothenburg Book Fair (the 29th of September) and in Stockholm (1st of October), as part of the cultural activities plan of the Embassy of Portugal/leitorado Camões I.P. in Sweden (at Stockholm University) with the support of Camões I.P. Gothenburg Book Fair More info: bokmassan.se/ Friday, 29th September: 10.00-10.45 am EUNIC Seminar “Att ge röst åt de fördrivna” (Trans: Giving a voice to the displaced): Irena Brežná , José Eduardo Agualusa , Nasia Dionysiou . Moderated by Henrik C. Enbohm , writer and former board member of Swedish PEN. Language: English. Friday, 29th September: 16:30-16:50 “Drömmars förmåga att väcka oss: José Eduardo Agualusa " (Trans..The ability of dreams to wake us up): Karavan/Nätverkstan Kulturtidskrifter. Moderated by Birgitta Wallin, Karavan editor. Language: English. Stockholm Sunday, October 1st: 19.00 A conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa Karavan: Timmermansgården, Timmermansgatan 46-48 (Södra Station) Moderated by: Stefan Helgesson , Literature Professor, English Department at Stockholm University. Reading in Swedish by Gert Lundstedt, reporter, editor and translator. Language: English, Portuguese and Swedish. About the writer: José Eduardo Agualusa was born in Huambo in 1960 and is considered one of Africa’s most important writers. He studied in Lisbon and currently lives in Mozambique. Both as a novelist and a reporter Agualusa has become an important voice of his country. He has a weekly column in the prestigious Brazilian newspaper O Globo. In 2007, Agualusa was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and in 2013 the Fernando Namora Prize and a translation grant of the English PEN in 2014. His novel A GENERAL THEORY OF OBLIVION was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 and was awarded the International Dublin Literary Award 2017. José Eduardo Agualusa is the winner of the National Prize for Culture and Arts in Angola 2019 in the area of literature. The jury underlined his contribution “to the emergence of the emancipated reader” and “to the strengthening of citizenship and freedom of expression”.
This book examines the dynamics of circulation between Francophone literary areas and the Swedish cultural landscape.
A warm welcome to the autumn semester 2023. Have you been admitted to one of our courses this autumn? Great! Please take your time to read the information below to get a successful start. Registration for courses Registration for our courses is open between 7-13 August 2023 (please note that registration is open longer for some courses, please visit student.ladok.se to see how long the online registration is open for your course). Make sure to register on time to keep your place. If you fail to register on time, you will automatically forfeit your place to another applicant on the reserve list. Registration is made online at student.ladok.se If you are a first-time student at our department, please see the website New student to get started with your studies. If you for some reason are unable to complete the online registration, please contact expedition.romklass@su.se as soon as possible, but before the online registration closes at the latest. Admitted with conditions If you have been conditionally admitted to a course, you need to fulfill the requirements in order to register and begin your studies. Please note that you will not be able to register online if you have been conditionally admitted. If you believe that you fulfill the eligibility criteria for the course to which you have been admitted, please contact us as soon as possible or at the latest by the last day of registration at expedition.romklass@su.se Reserve list Students on the reserve list will be contacted via email if we can offer you a place after the regular registration period has been closed. If offered a place, you will normally need to respond and accept your place within 24 hours. Check your email and junk mail on a daily basis to make sure you do not miss your place. Activate your account To register, you must first activate your university student account. Visit the following website to activate your account https://aktivera.su.se Register To register on a course or a program you have been admitted to, visit Ladok . Learning platform Athena After completing registration, you should log into our learning platform Athena . That is where your instructor will provide you with information about the course. Groups Some of our courses are divided into groups. This means that you as a student must choose which group you want to belong to during the semester. More information about group selection can be found on the course's Athena page. Targeted study support Do you have a long-term disability? Then you can contact Stockholm University's Disability Services for support and guidance in connection with your studies. Got questions? Feel free to get in touch with the Student Services at expedition.romklass@su.se
Are you interested in the contexts of women’s film cultures in Sweden and Canada? You have a unique opportunity to do that by taking part in a film screening and a workshop on this topic. The Centre for Canadian Studies invites you to two events surrounding the topic of “the international contexts of women’s film cultures during the 1970s”, one film screening at FilmForm, Kungsholmen (25 April, 18.00-19.30, see https://www.filmform.com/calendar-upcoming/ ) and a symposium (26 April, 10:00-16:00, Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, Filmhuset).
Many students, organisations and embassies attended the Student Day at NILAS (Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies)
Seminario 4 (online): Miércoles 8 de febrero, 12:00 - 14:00. - “La literatura obrera es ´mala` literatura” moderado por Ángela Martínez Fernández. Raquel Arias Careaga (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) y Linnea Kjellsson (Universidad de Estocolmo), conversarán con la escritora y dibujante Natalia Carrero sobre la calidad literaria como muralla en la ciudad letrada. Enlace al seminario (Zoom) ID: 691 0634 5276 Contraseña: 810011 Seminario coordinado por Ángela Martínez Fernández del “Grupo de Investigación OBERT
The article was developed at the library of the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies and at the offices at ROMKLASS when Castro and Selgas held the Serie the Cine Latinoamericano just before the outbreak of the pandemics.
